Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
32.4 Judgment and Obligation in Roman Intellectual History Seneconomics: Freeing the Indebted Subject Yasuko Taoka 145
48.1 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech The Rhetoric of Visibility and Invisibility in Antiphon 5, On the Murder of Herodes Peter O'Connell 145
51.3 Roman Imperial Interactions Local and Translocal Networks: Contact between Associations of Roman Citizens and Local Communities of the Empire Sailakshmi Ramgopal 145
60.1 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World What Makes a Law “Unfitting”? Edwin Carawan 145
68.2 Greek Tragedy: Rhetoric, Cartography, and the Death of Astyanax Mapping the World in Greek Tragedy Aara Suksi 145
78.1 Greek Philosophy Presocratic Theory and the Musical “Enharmonic” Sean Gurd 145
29.2 Athenian Frontiers Ethnic Contestation and Nemean 11: Tenedos, the Aiolis, and Athens Eric Driscoll 145
1.3 Greek Language and Linguistics Women’s Playthings: Contextualizing the Meaning of “Douleuma” Roger S. Fisher 145
20.1 Metageneric Excursions in Early Greek Epic Ileus the ‘Benevolent’ in the Catalogue of Women:The Intersection of Epic Traditions Elda Granata 145
29.4 Athenian Frontiers Out of Bounds: Reassessing IG II² 204 Joseph McDonald 145
32.5 Judgment and Obligation in Roman Intellectual History Elegantia vitae: Generic and Moral Selectivity in Tacitus’ Annals Lydia Spielberg 145
48.2 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech The Two Kinds of Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias Andrew Beer 145
51.4 Roman Imperial Interactions Valerian Tradition and the Ludi Saeculares of 17 BCE Susan Dunning 145
60.2 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World The History and Rhetoric of Disarming Greek Citizens Jeffrey Yeakel 145
68.3 Greek Tragedy: Rhetoric, Cartography, and the Death of Astyanax Laughter and Blood: A Homeric Echo in Euripides’ Trojan Women Emily Allen-Hornblower 145
78.2 Greek Philosophy Mercenary Wisdom: The Role of Simonides in Xenophon’s Hieron Mitchell H. Parks 145
77.2 Homer, Odyssey: Speech and Ritual Is Telemachus a "Naturally Gifted Orator?" The Case of Od. 2.40-79 David F. Driscoll 145
1.4 Greek Language and Linguistics Expressing Degrees of Probability in Greek Helma Dik 145
20.2 Metageneric Excursions in Early Greek Epic Hesiod and the Pythia: The Didactic/Oracular Literary Complex Ella H. Haselswerdt 145
29.5 Athenian Frontiers The Children of Athena: International Participation in the Hellenistic Panathenaia Julia L. Shear 145
39.1 Greek Lyric The Δυσκολώτερον Σκόλιον: A New Model of the Skolion Game in Antiquity Amy Pistone 145
48.3 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech Meidias Tyrannos: Meidias’ Tyrannical Attributes in Dem. 21 T. George Hendren 145
51.5 Roman Imperial Interactions CIL VIII 14683 and the North African Curiae Chris Dawson 145
60.3 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World The Mercenary, the Polis, and an Athenian Inscription from the Fourth Century BC Jake Nabel 145
68.4 Greek Tragedy: Rhetoric, Cartography, and the Death of Astyanax Astyanax and the Discus: Athletic Discourse in Euripides’ Troades Owen Goslin 145
78.3 Greek Philosophy “The Man with Arms” at Aristotle, Politics 1.2.1253a34 E. Christian Kopff 145
1.5 Greek Language and Linguistics Hybrid Meter in an Orphic Hymn to Zeus Jacobo Myerston 145
20.3 Metageneric Excursions in Early Greek Epic Question and Answer: Truth, Lies, and Narrative Innovation in the Odyssey Justin Arft 145
30.1 Performance and Space in Ancient Drama Talking about Choruses. Χορεία in fourth-Century BC Comedy. Lucy Jackson 145
39.2 Greek Lyric Fine Weather and Outdoor Symposia in Alcaeus Vanessa Cazzato 145
48.4 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech Ille suppositus: The Genealogical Plots of Panegyric 12(9) W. Josiah Edwards Davis 145
58.1 Poster Session The Semantics of ἔγχος and βέλος in Tragedy and the Date of Sophocles' Ajax Bob Corthals 145
60.4 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World Security and cura in the Georgics Michèle Lowrie 145
69.1 Documentary Fallacies The Documentary Letters of the Alexander Romance Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne 145
78.4 Greek Philosophy Four Words in Aristotle’s Politics on the Economics of Liberal Education Stephen Kidd 145
2.1 Epicurean Philosophy in Roman Poetry Anima Animae: Lucretius and the Life of the Body-Mind Alex Dressler 145
20.4 Metageneric Excursions in Early Greek Epic Revenons à nos moutons: The Resolution of Corrupted Herding in the Odyssey Adrienne Hagen 145
30.2 Performance and Space in Ancient Drama Civic Reassignment of Space in the Truculentus Robert Germany 145
39.3 Greek Lyric Alcaeus the Tyrant Slayer: Re-performance and identity in the Symposium Kristen Ehrhardt 145
48.5 Forms of Argument in Dicanic and Epideictic Speech Show and Tell: Genre and Deixis in Lucian Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin 145
58.2 Poster Session Learning through Performance: Using Role-Playing Pedagogy to Structure the Introductory Classical Culture Class Christine L. Albright 145
60.5 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World Arcana imperii Reconsidered: Tacitus and the Ethics of State Secrecy Matthew Taylor 145
68.2 Documentary Fallacies The Medium is (Part of) the Message: Cicero on the Use of Tabellae by the Catilinarian Conspirators Robert McCutcheon 145
78.5 Greek Philosophy Scholars and Scribes: Remarks on the Influence of Asclepius’s Commentary on the Transmission of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Mirjam E. Kotwick 145
2.3 Epicurean Philosophy in Roman Poetry Reconciling Epicurean Friendship and Roman amicitia in the Works of Philodemus Sonya Wurster 145
20.5 Metageneric Excursions in Early Greek Epic A Skillful and Guarded Rhetoric: Interpreting Agamemnon in the Homeric Scholia Benjamin Sammons 145
30.3 Performance and Space in Ancient Drama The Performance of Identity in Plautus’ Amphitryon Joseph P. Dexter 145
40.1 Art, Text, & the City of Rome Naevius’ Bellum Punicum and Manius Valerius Messalla: Art and Text at the Beginnings of Latin Literature Thomas Biggs 145
49.1 Scientific Modes of Perception and Expression Does Euclid's Optics Correct False Appearances? Colin Webster 145
58.3 Poster Session Distant Reading Alliteration in Latin Literature Patrick J. Burns 145